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Ciaphas Cain: The Anthology

By: Sandy Mitchell
Narrated by: Stephen Perring, Penelope Rawlins, Emma Gregory, Phillipe Bosher
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A Ciaphas Cain Anthology

This audiobook brings together 13 uproarious short stories and one novella, focused on Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium. His stories are celebrated as heroic propaganda pieces, but he’s simply trying to stay alive in a hostile galaxy.

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Ciaphas Cain doesn’t mean to be a hero – he just can’t seem to help it. While trying to escape certain death, he somehow achieves unlikely victory after victory in the wildest and most dangerous warzones of the galaxy, to hilarious effect.

THE STORY

Ciaphas Cain is a true hero. Brave, stalwart, uncompromising, a cool head under fire...or is he? His legend has spread far and wide, but only Cain himself knows the truth behind his long and storied career.

Until now.

Inquisitor Amberley Vail once more delves into the Cain archive to present a selection of the man’s greatest and strangest exploits. From Cain and the Valhallan 597th hunting down the source of a warp-tainted infection that threatens to overwhelm the world of Lentonia with a starving horde of undead, to his early years with the Valhallan 12th Field Artillery fending off a tyranid invasion on a barren mining world, to the mysterious death of a fellow commissar that sees Cain’s life at risk (once again) as the killer’s attention turns to him...

CONTENTS

This anthology contains the novella Old Soldiers Never Die and the following short stories:

- Fight or Flight
- The Beguiling
- Echoes of the Tomb
- Sector Thirteen
- Traitor's Gambit
- A Mug of Recaff
- The Smallest Detail
- The Little Things
- Last Night at the Resplendent
- The Bigger They Are
- The Only Good Ork
- Three Questions
- Rotten to the Core

Written by Sandy Mitchell. Narrated by Stephen Perring, Penelope Rawlins, Emma Gregory and Phillipe Bosher. Running time 6 hours, 28 minutes (approx).

©2023 Games Workshop Limited (P)2023 Games Workshop Limited

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Entertaining

Witty, funny, entertaining, and just great. Atypical reading (or listening) for a Warhammer novel, but quite refreshing. My first time listening to this narrator, and he didn't disappoint. Hearing his Orkish "WAAAAGH" made me laugh to the point that I spat out my sweet tea.

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Outstanding!!!!

This was a great surprise, and is easily one of my favorite storylines in 40K

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Required Listening for Cain Fans

This is a great collection of the short stories that are often referenced in passing in the larger stories. The first story is the introduction of Ciaphas Cain (and Jurgen). All the stories are great and well written.

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Overall Great but ...

Fantastic book but the sudden stop with audio commentary just ruined the tone and pace of some of the stories.

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Wonderfully read and written

The reading was excellent, clear and easy to understand, and the stories were great as well.

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Essential for Cain Fans. Read After the 1st Book!

An excellent compilation of the many short stories Mitchell has written for Cain over the years! Its clear a lot of these were ideas for novels that weren't suited for that extended length others are just fun little tales. It expands on several events in Cain's life that are often alluded to but have never been directly explored, until now! Highly recommended! I wish I'd had this to listen to right after the first book "For The Emperor" as it provides context that genuinely improve later books.

I wish they'd taken this opportunity to rerecord "The Devil You Know" and "Dead in the Water" with Stephen Perring since those two just don't fit as Toby Longworth (A spectacular Voice Actor in other Novels) was just wrong for the role and I wish we could have those stories with Perring. Perhaps in the future.

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EPIC EPIC EPIC

The homey CC is easily my fav in the Grimdark…. And every chance that I get to her my girl Jenit Sullah is worth more than what worth even means!!!! Sista Vail needs to get off her back! LOLOLOL. 20000 thumbs up

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I love some classic Ciaphas shenanigans

honestly as much as I like Ciaphas my favorite part of the book was getting a little Yurgan story loved it

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The most relatable character in 40k

Ciaphas Cain plays himself in this book, so if you want to hear about him having adventures with Jurgen, his manservant who does at least half the work, then this is the one for you.

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Its Ciaphus Cain you know its good!

A collection of long and short Cain stories with some banger moments comedy and action.

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